Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, announced an action against two “credit card add-on product vendors” — sellers of services such as identity theft protection or credit monitoring — for billing customers for add-on services they never actually received.The two companies – Intersections, Inc. and Affinion Group Holdings, Inc. (plus various Affinion affiliates) – must pay almost $9.6 million combined in consumer refunds and penalties. The CFPB said that under the proposed consent orders, Affinion would pay $6.8 million to cover refunds for eligible consumers plus an additional $1.9 million in civil penalties, and Intersections would pay $55,000 for refunds and $1.2 million in penalties. Read more at Consumer Affairs....

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